Music for Chameleons is a collection of short fiction and non-fiction by the American author Truman Capote. His first collection of new material in fourteen years, Music for Chameleons spent sixteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, unprecedented for a collection of short works.

The jacket design by R.D. Scudellari relies exclusively on ITC Tom’s Roman, featuring two enlarged C’s with nested letterforms.

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This paperback edition of Heinlein’s acclaimed sci-fi novel features one of the high contrast display typefaces I sometimes refer to as “1970s book cover serifs”. Tom Carnase is responsible for many of these faces (e.g. ITC Bernase Roman, ITC Caslon No. 223, and ITC Milano Roman), and this one bears the designer’s name: ITC Tom’s Roman.

Tom’s Roman is an odd duck, with undersized ‘i’ dots, unexpected flat terminals on ‘c, f, r, s, y’, and strange spurs on ‘C, G, S’, but most of those details aren’t visible in this title. Mostly, the cover just has a classic ’70s paperback appearance. Two more notes: there is a custom leg on the ‘R’, and the ‘h’ placement appears to be an oversight.

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Kurppa Hosk:

Jonas Kleerup is one of Sweden’s most renowned art dealers. He is also a well-known musician and pop-culture contributor. Kurppa Hosk has worked with Jonas Kleerup since he started out his venture. We have developed Galleri Jonas Kleerup’s visual identity and provide art work for the gallery’s exhibitions and book productions.